Two offshore wind projects located off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard moved closer to delivering a combined 1,200 MW of energy.
Vineyard Wind was selected by Massachusetts officials on May 23 to build the commonwealth’s first offshore wind farm. Expected to begin construction by 2019 and to generate 800 MW of energy by 2021, the wind farm could power 400,000 homes. Vineyard Wind beat out competing proposals from Bay State Wind, which was a partnership between the Danish firm Ørsted and Eversource, and Deepwater Wind.